Welcome to the Rich Lab; a systems neuroscience research group at SUNY Downstate in Brooklyn focused on understanding the mechanisms of learning in the brain across the lifespan.
Memories can last a lifetime, but how these memories are stored and encoded is unknown. The Rich Lab studies the neurodynamics of the hippocampus in rodents. We use various experimental and computational approaches to try to understand how memories are used to guide decisions in the healthy and aging brain. We record the activity of neurons in the brain throughout the lifespan as animals perform challenging tasks designed to delineate defined cognitive processes such as planning and inference.